James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

It may have looked quiet to you, but around here the scene is a-buzzin’.
If you’ve been through this site memorising everything, then you’ll know that in the seventies I used to play in a folk rock band called Caedmon.
Caedmon played their farewell concert thirty years ago, recorded and released an album and went their separate [...]

I was possibly a little unfair in my previous post Drumming for Beginners, which might have given the false impression to the more trusting amongst you that I was actually an excellent drummer with a superb electronic kit.
Neither is quite true. I’m a shite drummer and the kit in question is the ubiquitous DD502, which [...]

So, what have I been up to in my long struggle to avoid actually finishing a song?
Well, I’ve decided to learn how to play the drums.
This is an ingenious and cunning plan. Instead of spending hours trying to make my computer sound like a real drummer, it suddenly became obvious that what I needed was [...]

Fergus gets his chance to show what he’s made of (wood, mostly) in a return match at The Clarity and Sparkle Show.

‘More music - less tech’, cry readers.